Turkey provides more authorizations to goods carriers from Moldova

Chisinau, 15 May /MOLDPRES/ - Moldova and Turkey have signed a protocol of the Moldovan-Turkish joint commission for international road transport, which provides increase in the number of authorizations for Moldovan goods carriers. The document was signed following a meeting of the joint commission in the road transport sector, held in Ankara.   

The sides agreed that, after 85 percent of the number of authorizations is used, Turkey would provide an additional quota of authorizations.  

Another subject discussed and accepted by both sides was a proposal to amend the agreement for the international road transports between Moldova and Turkey, in order to liberalize the bilateral and transit transport. “We agreed to start procedures of amending the present inter-governmental agreement and we want it to be implemented in a short period,” the state secretary at the Economics and Infrastructure Ministry, head of the joint commission in behalf of Moldova Serghei Bucataru said.    

The bilateral ties in the field of international road transport of passengers and goods between Moldova and Turkey are established based on the inter-governmental agreement signed in Chisinau on 3 May 1994. The accord sees that  the goods transport in the bilateral regime, transit and to/ from third countries is made based on authorizations.   

Data by the National Statistics Bureau shows that the exports from Moldova to Turkey grew 1.7-fold up to 104 million dollars in 2017, while the imports increased by almost 12 per cent up to 303 million dollars. The same tendency of increase in the foreign trade, by about 20 per cent, was maintained in the first quarter of 2018 too.     

(Reporter V. Bercu, editor A. Raileanu)